OffBeatBride.com - Your Wedding, Your Way

Are you excited about your wedding but you can’t seem to see yourself in the virginal puffy princess wedding gown with the 25 bridesmaids in matching teal dresses? Your wedding is your big day, it is about you and no one is forcing you to have the traditional wedding with the white doves and towering wedding cake. OffBeatBride.com is a site that offers a community of brides who want a wedding that represents who they are and really is true to the spirit of a wedding which is celebrating the union of a couple with friends and family. At OffBeatBride.com there is advice and blogs from women who are planning or have had their own unique wedding. You can get great ideas on a number of wedding topics: such as alternative engagement rings, diamonds aren’t the only stone that lasts forever. Add your comments on posts and express your own wedding ideas. There is a gallery where you can get a look at other users’ weddings. You can get advice from other brides who have gone through it all. There are sections for browsing through stores and vendors. You can also read up on the book OffBeatBride and the author Ariel Meadow Stallings. Have your wedding be how you want it to be and get some ideas at OffBeatBride.com.

"Hey, I'm Ariel, author of the book Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides. This blog is just the tip of the offbeat iceberg — for the whole story you'll need the book, which is half memoir, half tipster handbook. Read an excerpt, and then get your copy."

OffBeatBride.com has an attractive interface. The site is simple in structure and easy to navigate. The site has a great deal of unique ideas and it is nice that you can comment on all of the posts. The photo gallery is a good feature as well and helps create a community feel to the site. The vendors and stores section is also useful for browsing.

There are so many sites and communities dedicated to weddings. How will OffBeatBride.com deal with the competition of so many sites with the similar wedding theme? OffBeatBride.com could offer some wedding management tools such as a budget list.